Grooved and barbed rod



(NqModeL) W. H. PERRY.

GROOVED AND BARBED ROD.

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E! Ei-ry Attorney 5 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM H. PERRY, OF SHARON, PENNSYLVANIA.

GROOVED AND BARBED ROD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,887, dated January5, 1886.

Application filed August 19,1885. Serial No. 174,815. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. PERRY, a citizen of the United States,and aresident of Sharon, in the county of Mercer and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGrooved and Barbed Rods and Bars, of which the following is a eastingjor dieingj and which, when so produced, will bea completed article ofmanufacture, ready to be placed upon the market as such, andsubsequently employed in the manufacture of various articles, to whichit may be adapted by its peculiar form.

My invention consists, essentially, of a rolled, molded, cast, or diedrod or bar having longitudinal grooves, within which grooves are formedat regular intervals teeth, barbs, or the like.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated several forms of bar,which, while slightly differing in form, all show the same essentialcharacteristics. A design ates the body of the bar or rod, which is ofapproximately diamond shape, as shownin Figure 1, or which may beovalthat is, with its sides slightly rounded-as shown in Fig. 2, orsiX-sided that is, having opposing faces or surfaces parallel with eachother, and on opposite sides of its central portion, as shown at a inFig. 3.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting my invention to the preciseform in cross-see tion of the bar, as a variety of forms may be employedwithout departing from the spirit of my invention.

Each of the bars A, it will be observed, is formed with longitudinalgrooves B B, of which there may be two or more, and said grooves run theentire length of the bar orrod, as shown.

C O G, &c., designate barbs or teeth, which are formed within thegrooves B B at regular intervals. These teeth or barbs may be of anydesired size or form which it may be found feasible to form by therolling, molding, casting, or dieing process, and said teeth or barbsare formed simultaneously with the rolling, molding, casting, or dieingof the grooves, the rib on the roll or rolls which serves to form thegroove being suitably cut away at intervals, so as to form matrices forthe production of the teeth or barbs.

Having described my invention, I elaim- As a new article of manufacture,a rolled, molded, cast, or died bar or rod having longitudinal grooveswithin which are teeth or barbs at intervals, substantially asdescribed.

Signed at Sharon, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania,this 15th day of August, A. D. 1885.

XVILLIAM H. PERRY.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN H. ELLIOTT, Orms. W. PALMER.

